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‘Beyond GDP’

Tracks efforts in many countries to correct national money-based accounts and scorecards of progress, e.g., GDP. Covers new scorecards beyond money and economics which use systems approaches to quality of life measure by multiple metrics from many sciences and disciplines. These indicators add tracking health, education, poverty gaps and environment.

Reacting to the European Council announcement on the EU’s 2030 climate and energy package, Nick Molho, Executive Director at the Aldersgate Group said:
“European leaders have made the right decision to commit to a greenhouse gas emission reduction target of at least 40% by 2030, which keeps open the option to increase the EU’s commitment [...]

The International Forum on Globalization and the Techno-Utopia Project
in collaboration with
The International Center for Technology Assessment, The New York
Open Center and The Schumacher Center for New [...]

Building the Global Crowdfunding Ecosystem
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 22, 2014
The First JOBSIMPACT Small Business Crowdfunding Index Released:
Best to Worst Crowdfunding Environments for Entrepreneurship and Small Business in the United [...]

From Dual Citizen, Inc.
On October 20, 2014, Dual Citizen launched its 2014 Global Green Economy
Index (GGEI). The intensity of public and media discourse on climate
change may be increasing, but there is far less analytic and media
engagement with how to actually reorient global growth on more low carbon,
resource efficient [...]

With less than a year to go until the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are agreed, the big question now is implementation. Specifically, how do we make the SDGs relevant to businesses as well as national and local level decision makers?
As part of the Measure What Matters initiative, we are bringing together statisticians from corporate [...]

Beyond GDP
Measuring progress, true wealth, and the wellbeing of nations
October 2014 newsletter
Interview
Quote
In the spotlight
In brief
Agenda
On the web
In this edition of the Beyond GDP newsletter:
Interview with [...]

Carney and Badré put Integrated Reporting on the agenda
at the Annual Meetings of the World Bank Group and International Monetary Fund
10 October 2014, Washington - Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, and Betrand Badré, Managing Director and World Bank Group Chief [...]

Focus on US Employment — October 2014 Update
By Hazel Henderson
Total nonfarm payroll employment in September rose by 248,000 which lowers the unemployment rate to 5.9%. August’s jobs were revised from 142,000 to 180,000, and July rose by a revised 180,000 – a combined 69,000 jobs more than previously reported. There was a 4.2% [...]